Great news! A new ILO report shows that the global number of child labourers has decreased

Great news! A new ILO report shows that the global number of child labourers has decreased by a third since 2000, from 246 million to 168 million girls and boys. In spite of this, though, we need to step up the fight as we are far from reaching the goal of eliminating the worst forms of child labour by 2016. Let’s hold up the #RedCard to #ChildLabour!

“We are moving in the right direction but progress is still too slow,” ILO Director-General Guy Ryder said, adding that more has to be done to make sure every girl and boy on the planet have a REAL childhood. “There are 168 million good reasons to do so,” he exclaimed.

The new report shows that more than half of the world’s child labourers, or 85 million, are in hazardous work. This is work that directly endangers their health, safety and moral development.